Foreign workers are `Indentured Servants`

Foreign workers from India have been locked into `indentured servitude` by the H-1B program, noted the head of an organization which purchased $80,000 worth of ads attacking the visa for highly-skilled foreign workers, which are running at BART stations and in trains in the San Francisco Bay Area. The controversial ads have been labeled “anti-immigrant” by Indian Americans and civil rights organizations. The print ads are posted at the Civic Center BART station in San Francisco and the 19th Street BART station in Oakland. The ads have also been placed inside several BART trains. More than 340,000 H-1B workers were employed in California in 2017, with an average salary of $117,000. About 157,000 H-1B workers were employed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017, according to PfIR data.Kevin Lynn, executive director of Progressives for Immigration Reform, the organization which purchased the ads, told India-West that his organization bought the ads on BART to “draw attention to the abuses committed by companies who hire H-1B workers. ”The purpose of the ad was to inform and tap into U.S. tech workers whose employment prospects are dimming by the year, he said, adding: these are good, middle class jobs that are being lost to foreign workers, when there are sufficient supplies of U.S. workers to fill those jobs.